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EP 0451297 A4 19920930 - PRETREATMENT OF OVERWRITABLE OPTO-MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND PRETREATED OVERWRITABLE OPTO-MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM

Title (en)

PRETREATMENT OF OVERWRITABLE OPTO-MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND PRETREATED OVERWRITABLE OPTO-MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM

Publication

EP 0451297 A4 19920930 (EN)

Application

EP 90916077 A 19901031

Priority

  • JP 9001396 W 19901031
  • JP 28553789 A 19891101

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9106951A1] A method of pretreating an overwritable opto-magnetic recording medium disc by modulating merely the intensity of an optical beam without modulating the direction of a recording magnetic field. The opto-magnetic recording medium comprises at least a multilayered vertically magnetized film having a two-layered structure of a recording layer (first layer) and a recording assisting layer (second layer). Data are recorded in the first layer (and also in the second layer, at times) by applying a laser beam to the recording medium in the form of bits having 'A direction' magnetization and bits having 'direction opposite to A' magnetization. When the intensity of the laser beam is on a high level, 'A direction' magnetization of the recording assisting layer (second layer) is reversed to 'direction opposite to A' magnetization by the recording magnetic field Hb so as to form the bits having 'direction opposite to A' magnetization (or 'A direction' magnetization) in the recording layer (first layer) by 'direction opoposite to A' magnetization of this second layer. When the beam intensity is on a low level, bits having 'A direction magnetization' (or 'direction opposite to A' direction) are formed in the first layer by 'A direction' magnetization of the second layer.

IPC 1-7

G11B 11/10

IPC 8 full level

G11B 11/10 (2006.01); G11B 11/105 (2006.01); G11B 19/12 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G11B 11/10506 (2013.01 - EP US); G11B 11/10519 (2013.01 - EP US); G11B 11/10526 (2013.01 - EP US); G11B 19/12 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9106951 A1 19910516; DE 69024196 D1 19960125; DE 69024196 T2 19961010; EP 0451297 A1 19911016; EP 0451297 A4 19920930; EP 0451297 B1 19951213; JP 3038735 B2 20000508; JP H03147549 A 19910624; US 5258973 A 19931102

DOCDB simple family (application)

JP 9001396 W 19901031; DE 69024196 T 19901031; EP 90916077 A 19901031; JP 28553789 A 19891101; US 68859691 A 19910626